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Anne-Marie Jackson working on a waka image
Photo: Sharron Bennett.

BPhEd(Hons),  MPhEd, PhD(Otago)

Co-Director, Te Koronga Indigenous Science Research Theme
Tel  +64 3 479 8378
Mob +64 21 279 8378
Email anne-marie.jackson@otago.ac.nz
Office: Room 113, 55 Union St West

Background

Tēnā koutou katoa, He uri ahau nō Te Taitokerau. Nō Ngāti Whātua, Te Roroa, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Wai me Ngāti Kahu o Whangaroa ahau. Kei te mihi.

My genealogical links are to the Far North and these links firmly ground me as a Māori academic.  I am a Professor in Māori physical education and health and joined the School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences as an academic staff member in 2011. After obtaining a Bachelor of Physical Education Honours degree majoring in Exercise Sport Science and a Master of Physical Education focusing on education policy, I completed a doctorate in Māori studies and physical education examining rangatiratanga and Māori health and well-being within a customary fisheries context.

In 2013, alongside Dr Hauiti Hakopa, we established Te Koronga which is a graduate research excellence group.  Following from the success of our graduate research excellence group we became a recognised University of Otago Research Theme:

Te Koronga: Indigenous Science Research Theme

I also provide leadership to the Coastal People: Southern Skies collaboration that connects communities with world-leading, cross-discipline research to rebuild coastal ecosystems.

Coastal People: Southern Skies

Teaching

  • SPEX 206Te Pū o te Ora: Māori Physical Education and Health
  • SPEX 306Te Pou o Te Koronga: Advanced Māori Physical Education and Health

Research

My research platform is Te Koronga.  Te Koronga is focused on Māori research excellence that uplifts the hopes and aspirations of Māori communities in the context of Māori physical education and health. Māori physical education and health is the application of worldview for mauri ora, flourishing wellness.

In 2018, we were featured in Nature:

These labs are remarkably diverse — here's why they're winning at science (Nature website)

I have four distinct programmes of research:

Māori physical education and health

We examine notions of mauri ora, hauora and oranga for Māori and indigenous peoples.  In particular, we work alongside numerous local and national Māori organisations in the praxis of Māori physical education and health including: Parore-Edmonds Whānau,Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Whātua, Kāti Huirapa ki Puketeraki, NZ Police, Toi Tangata.

Projects include:

  • Understanding Tertiary Māori and Pacific Islands Student Excellence at the School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences
  • Noho Marae as a Tertiary Kaupapa Māori Pedagogy

Tangaroa | Marine

Tangaroa is the Māori deity of the sea.  We research the concept of tangata moana (people of the ocean) and how this concept is critical for health and well-being of coastal communities.  I co-lead Te Tiaki Mahinga Kai with Associate Professor Chris Hepburn of the Department of Marine Science. Projects include:

Waka and water safety

We are members of Tangaroa Ara Rau which is a nation-wide collective of Māori water safety experts interested in strengthening connections to the water for wellness.

Tangaroa Ara Rau

We also support many of waka and water safety whānau such as Hauteruruku ki Puketeraki, Live It Enterprises Mr Rob Hewitt, and Te Toki Voyaging Trust. Projects include:

Indigenous science

We lead a University of Otago Research Theme:

Te Koronga: Indigenous Science.

The research focus is indigenous science, including:

  • Science derived from Māori ways of knowing as an example of indigenous science
  • Interface research: the combination of Māori and Western science
  • Science that embodies a decolonising research ethic

Projects include:

  • Principal Investigator Brain Research New Zealand in the Mātauranga Platform.

These four programmes are underpinned by my praxis and these are the threads that are a feature of all of the my research:

  • Community engagement and co-production
  • Kaupapa Māori methodology
  • Kaupapa Māori methods, namely hui and wānanga
  • Graduate student development

Postgraduate students

For students wishing to join Te Koronga, please contact Professor Anne-Marie Jackson.

Current students

  • Justine Camp, Kāi Tahu, Kāti Mamoe, Waitaha, PhD, Te Tautarinui o Matariki; A whānau health compass, Professor Anne-Marie Jackson, Professor Michael Reilly. Funded by BRNZ
  • Chelsea Cunningham, Ngāti Kahungunu, PhD, Kei raro i te tarutaru ngā tuhi tīpuna: Reconnection to Whakapapa. Professor Anne-Marie Jackson, Dr Hauiti Hakopa, Professor Richard Walter
  • Sinead Ford, PgDipSci, Examining Te Taha Hinengaro in the CACTUS programme, Professor Anne-Marie Jackson, Associate Professor Tania Cassidy
  • Ben Hanara, Ngāti Kahungunu, MSc, Te Wai Roro o Tangaroa – Tangaroa in the brain, Professor Anne-Marie Jackson, Dr Hauiti Hakopa. Funded by BRNZ
  • Ngahuia Mita, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Hako, Hauraki, PhD, Tairāwhiti Waka, Tairāwhiti Tāngata – Examining Tairāwhiti Voyaging Philosophies, Professor Anne-Marie Jackson, Dr Chanel Phillips, Dr Hauiti Hakopa. Funded by Health Research Council
  • Caleb Mitchell, Ngāti Porou, MPhEd, Hauora and Outdoor Education, Associate Professor Mike Boyes, Mr Geoff Ockwell, Professor Anne-Marie Jackson
  • Tukohirangi Pini, Tapuika, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, MPhEd, The rise of Rahi - an investigation into the popularity of ki-o-rahi, Professor Anne-Marie Jackson, Dr Hauiti Hakopa
  • Terina Raureti, Ngāti Raukawa, Tangaroa Ara Rau: Whānau connections and Water Safety, Professor Anne-Marie Jackson, Dr Chanel Phillips, Professor Chris Button, Funded by Health Research Council
  • Lisa van Halderen, MSc, Rāhui and Customary Fisheries Management, Associate Professor Chris Hepburn, Professor Anne-Marie Jackson
  • Jeanette Wikaira, Ngāti Tamaterā, Ngāti Pūkenga, Ngāpuhi, PhD, He Taonga – Hei Taonga: An exploration of taonga and well-being, Professor Anne-Marie Jackson, Professor Poia Rewi

Graduates

  • Chelsea Cunningham, Ngāti Kahungunu, PgDipPE, Dr Anne-Marie Jackson, Dr Hauiti Hakopa
  • Chelsea Cunningham, Ngāti Kahungunu, MPhEd, Dr Anne-Marie Jackson, Dr Hauiti Hakopa
  • Ben Hanara, Ngāti Kahungunu, PgDipPE, Dr Anne-Marie Jackson, Dr Hauiti Hakopa
  • Darcy Karaka, Ngāti Porou, PgDipPE. Dr Anne-Marie Jackson, Dr Hauiti Hakopa
  • Darcy Karaka, Ngāti Porou, MPhEd, A Kaupapa Māori Approach to the Fitness Gym. Dr Anne-Marie Jackson, Dr Hauiti Hakopa
  • Gaye McDowell, Tūhoe, Te Atiawa, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Kahungunu, MPhEd, Te Ao Māori Learning Journeys of Teacher Educators. Associate Professor Tania Cassidy, Dr Anne-Marie Jackson
  • Georgia McCarty, Tainui, PgDipPE, Whakamomori: An investigation into Māori Youth Suicide Prevention, Dr Anne-Marie Jackson, Dr Hauiti Hakopa
  • Ngahuia Mita, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Hako, Hauraki, BPhEd(Hons), Dr Anne-Marie Jackson, Dr Hauiti Hakopa
  • Ngahuia Mita, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Hako, Hauraki, MPhEd, Hauteruruku ki Puketeraki - Connecting to Te Ao Takaroa, Dr Anne-Marie Jackson, Dr Hauiti Hakopa
  • Chanel Phillips, Ngāti Hine, MPhEd, Mahinga kai- He tāngata. Mahinga kaitiaki- He mauri. Dr Anne-Marie Jackson, Dr Hauiti Hakopa
  • Chanel Phillips, Ngāti Hine, PhD, A Journey to Belonging: Explorations of Māori Perspectives of Water Safety, Dr Anne-Marie Jackson, Dr Hauiti Hakopa, Associate Professor Chris Button.  Funded by Health Research Council
  • Tukohirangi Pini, Tapuika, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, PgDipPE, Dr Anne-Marie Jackson, Dr Hauiti Hakopa
  • Huia Pocklington, Ngāti Whātua, BPhEd(Hons), Dr Anne-Marie Jackson, Dr Hauiti Hakopa
  • Lisa Pohatu, Ngāti Kahungunu, MPH, Iron Maori: A Kaupapa Māori Driven Hauora Initiative. Dr Richard Egan, Dr Anne-Marie Jackson
  • Mitchell Purvis, Ngāti Pikiao, PgDipPE, Dr Anne-Marie Jackson, Dr Hauiti Hakopa
  • Terina Raureti, Ngāti Raukawa, PgDipPE, Dr Anne-Marie Jackson, Dr Hauiti Hakopa
  • Terina Raureti, Ngāti Raukawa, MPhEd, Kia mārama ai te ihi, te wehi o Mukukai: The influence of swimming on whānau engagement with water, Dr Anne-Marie Jackson, Dr Hauiti Hakopa
  • Jordon Skipper, Te Atiawa, Tūhoe, PgDipPE, Dr Anne-Marie Jackson, Dr Hauiti Hakopa.
  • Kendall Stevenson, Ngāti Awa, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kurī, Te Aupōuri, MPhEd, Maori Leadership within Recreation Management. A case study of Aoraki Bound. Dr Sally Shaw, Dr Anne-Marie Jackson
  • Nikki Timu, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Kahungunu, MPhEd, Māori perspectives on the use of haka within New Zealand sport, Professor Steve Jackson, Dr Anne-Marie Jackson
  • Shane Witehira, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu, BPhEd(Hons), Dr Anne-Marie Jackson, Dr Hauiti Hakopa

Publications

Oetzel, J. G., Zhang, Y., Nock, S., Meha, P., Huriwaka, H., Vercoe, M., … Rewi, P., … Jackson, A.-M., Perry, T., … Hokowhitu, B. (2023). Enhancing health outcomes for Māori elders through an intergenerational cultural exchange and physical activity programme: A cross-sectional baseline study [Brief research report]. Frontiers in Public Health, 11, 1307685. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1307685

Nelson, J., Jackson, A.-M., Phillips, C., Poa, D., & Skelton, T. K. (2023). Te Papa Tākaro o te Tuakiri: The field of identity in Indigenous Māori rugby. Journal of Sport for Development, 11(1).

Phillips, C., & Jackson, A.-M. (2023). Waka, whanaungatanga and water safety: Using Indigenous knowledge to educate future aquatic educators about Māori water safety in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Journal of Sport for Development, 11(1). Retrieved from https://jsfd.org/

Jackson, A.-M., Cunningham, C., Poa, D., Phillips, C., & Hapeta, J. (Eds.). (2023). MAI Journal, 12(1) [Special Issue: Tēnei tātou Te Koronga Māori research excellence] doi: 10.20507/MAIJournal.2023.12.1.10. [Guest Editors].

Hanara, B., Jackson, A.-M., & Hakopa, H. (2023). Te Āheinga Pū Reretahi: A foundational Māori perspective of the wairoro. MAI Journal, 12(1), 82-92. doi: 10.20507/MAIJournal.2023.12.1.8

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